Community News

Palliative care – helping people live with comfort, dignity and meaning

Palliative care focuses on quality of life Palliative care is often misunderstood as being only about the final days of life. However, as Shelly Korn of Sunset Care explained during...

A new Torah for the Sephardi community

A joyous celebration at the Cape Town Sephardi Synagogue marked the donation of a new Sefer Torah to...

Save the date: Care Services AGM 2026

12 November 202616h30-18h30Venue will be emailed to you after online registration. REGISTER HERE

Two hours of your time. One community counting on us.

Every day of the year, there are organisations in our community quietly doing extraordinary work. Care for our...

Democracy is not a spectator sport

South Africans have far more power to bring about change than they may realise – but only if...

The secret synagogue of Indonesia

Last month I described the magic of Bali and what our family experienced living in Indonesia for three months. Having expected to find only a...

Israeli social protest in a digital age

Haverim, a new comic documentary on the Israeli social protest movement, was screened at the Nelson Mandela Auditorium on 31 January. The event was hosted...

Reflecting on 14 years at Bnei Akiva

For many Jewish children across South Africa, the annual camp with one of the Zionist youth movements is the highlight of their year. Fourteen years...

Friends of the UJC

On Thursday 20 December, the Green Point Urban Park was transformed into a fantastical dinner venue for the fourth annual Friends of the UJC...

Starting a conversation

The Cape South African Jewish Board of Deputies recently hosted a ground-breaking community meeting with Western Cape ANC Chairman and Deputy Minister of International...

Standing in solidarity with Israel

On 22 November the SAZF (Cape Council) and the Cape Board hosted a community meeting to gather in solidarity with Israel during ‘Operation Pillar...

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